The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-01-22
WISCONSIN STATENEW )

DURING the past season 1,414,772
pounds Of fish were caught in the B n.y.
| field district that returned $40,-
| 927.2S. The fishing outfits are valued
at S35, ,430, and the business employed
about $50 men. The catch was $685.
600 pounds short OF that OF the pre-
vious year.
LUMBERMEN say they have never
exp' rienced better season for cutting
and skidding logs.
| The iron excitement at Knapp,
Dunn County, still continues. Experts
have pronounced the ore in that
vicinity rs good as that in the Goge-
bic iron range. One company is max
ing preparations to build large
boarding house on its plant for the
accommodation OF the men it will have
at work in q few days. Several car
| loads of ore have been shipped East
to be smelted.
Il. A. CHADWICK, q trainman on the
| Menomonie Il Red Cedar Branch OF
| the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
Railroad, fell off the train near Red
Cedar on the 18th, and was run over
and killed instantly. The deceased
lived at Wabash, MINI.
REV JOHN PATTERSON, OF Cambridge,
attempted suicide while walking along
the street in Milwaukee, on the 18th,
by cutting his throat with a razor.
Mr.. Patterson has been III mental i'll
health since last October, when he
suffered q sunstroke, and at the time
OF the act was patient at q Turkish
Fbath establishment in that city.
The Mittelstaedt murder trial at
Milwaukee, ended on the 4th with a
verdict OF acquittal.
STEPHEN SALENTINE, aged 2S, con OF
Matthias Salent;ne, a weil-known
hardware merchant, Of Milwaukee,
shot himself through the head, at the
Republican House,j n that city, on the
18th. Temporary ins anity was the
cause.
WM. w. NEWELL, one OF the most
diigent and sanguine prospectors in
| Wisconsin,, has in his possession q
very fine specimen Of kaolin, which he
obtained not far from Eau Claire. He
says that the deposit OF this variety
OF clay is abundant, and IN a remark
| ably pure state, where he made the
| find. This specimen is OF a very clear
white, and entirely free from shell
mixture. Newell is confident there is
greater profit to be derived from the
! development OF the kaolin beds than
! from the iron beds OF Wisconsin.
CHRIST. A. WENNERBURG, Swede
employed in Frazer's camp, in Eau
Claire County, was struck by a falling
| tree, which broke his neck, causing in
stant death.
RYAN, MCARDLE & BALLOON, plumb
ers, steam and gas filters, OF Eau
Claire, have made an assignment for
the benefit o. their creditors to Benz.
J. Cnurchill. The liabilities are not
accurately known. The assets are
about 81 900.
| THE farmers OF several northern
counties, especially Barron and Pierce,
are about to try the experiment OF
cultivating hickory trees, the sapliDgs
to be used for hoop-poles. A large
number OF orders for hickory nuts
have been sent to Milwaukee and Chi
cago.
THE escape Of q notorious criminal
from the Eau Claire county Jail has
! Just leaked out. The other night the
y. NJ. c. A. held services in the iail to
comfort the prisoners, who were let
! ont into the large cage for the occa-
! sion. When the services were over,
| James Sullivan, a prisoner OF many
aliases and many otfenses, turned up
his coat collar, rolled up the whites Of
his eyes, passed out unnoticed among
the Y. NJ c. A. people, and made good
his escape. He was in Jail for an au-
| dacious theft from q passenger coach
at the depot there OF property belong
ing to Chicago drummer.
G. W. ALLEN, recently nominated
| by the President as postmaster at
| Sturgeon Bay, is g. prominent Demo
crat and lawyer. He is an old col.
lege mate OF Senator Spooner and ola
| brother OF Postmaster-Ge General Villas,
and has been a member OF the State
Legislature.
A DECISION OF the supreme court
holds that the Chicago, Milwaukee x
st. Paul Railroad Company cannot be
held liable for personal injuries re-
ceived in q collision caused by the
wind blowing a freight car along a side
track and onto the main track.
/ NJ. j. BRIGGS, the newly-appointed
postmaster at Dodgeville, is a lawyer
and has for several terms occupied n
seat in the legislature.
HUBEKT g., the infant son OF David
Merit, painter living in Milwaukee,
! died On the 18th from q scalding re
ceived some days before. The little
/ child was walking backward out OF q
pantry with piece OF bread, unno
| ticed by its mother, when it fell into q
/ pail of hot water, and its back was
/ badly scaided. No physician was
/ called, q salve secured at drug store
! being applied, and the child fingered in
agony until death relieved its suffer.
ings The coroner held an investiga-
/ tion and pronounced the death as &C
cidental
JACOB JEWELL is the new coroner OF
/ Oneida County, and not Jacob New
| ell, as has been previously reported.
ALBERT ERDMAN, living in Milwau-
/ kee, had rheumatism IN his left leg.
| He had heard that a viGorus appliCa-
| ton of kerosene would he bene fetal.
/ While comfortably lubricatirg his
shinbone with the fluid he got too
close 10 hot stove and the llnlment
took fire. He had narrow escape
| from being burned to death, and lost
nearly all the flesh off the lower por-
! ton OF the diseased member, but it
cured he rheumatinm.
! WILLIAM 0sMOTHERLN, Il painter,
who lately separated from his wife III
| Wisconsin, gas found frozen to dea' d
in snowdrift near Henry, D. T., on
January Z.
JOHN REIDY, an employe in Fuller Y
! Johnson's machine shops, at Mad
son, had bis right arm caught in The
gearing; the limb was badly lacerated,
| and the bones Of the forearm crushed.
The physicians do not anticipate auy
danger to life.
Notes Of the Legislatures.